Benjamin Porter: Drummer/Percussionist Welcome to my online portfolio. In this site, you will find background information about my drumming history.  -Ben

Equipment Used

Drums-

1975 Vintage Slingerland Black Beauty Maple Drums:

Steel Snare: 5"x14", Tom: 10"x12", Tom: 10"x 13, Tom: 11"x 14", Floor Tom: 18"x16", Bass Drum: 18"x22"

2008 C&C Custom Maple Drums (Silver Broken Glass Sparkle):

12" tom, 14" floor tom, 20" bass

2007 Ludwig Maple Vintage look Snare Drum (Emerald Green Sparkle): 5"x14" Snare

Cymbals-

Sabian:

14" AA Rock Hats -- 17" AAX Stage Crash -- 10" AA Splash -- 18" AA Medium Crash -- 20" AAX Stage Ride -- 18" AA Chinese Cymbal

Sticks-

Vic Firth:

5A Wood Tip, 7A Wood Tip, Jazz brush, Jazz rake, Bams, T1 American Custom Timpani Mallets, M3 American Custom Keyboard Mallets, and Conquistador (SAA)

Promark: Lightning Rods, Hot Rods

Home Made by David Porter: Rods

Percussion-

Toca: Hi Hat Tamborine

Latin Percussion: Soft Shake (Shaker)

Hardware-

Drum Workshop:

5000 Hi Hat stand, 5000 Double Bass pedal, and 9700 Straight/Boom stand, 5300 Snare stand, Tom stand attachment

Drum Heads-

Remo:

Snare- coated ambassador

Toms- clear pinstripe/ coated ambassador

Bass- power stroke 3 with double falam slam pad/ coated power stroke 3 with double falam slam pad/ power stroke 4 (front)

 

 

Drumming Influences

Ringo Starr, Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, Greg Ritchie, Adrian Gardner, Louie Weaver, Matt Cameron, Jeremy Taggart, Lars Ulrich, Chad Smith, Travis Barker, Chad Sexton, Wuv, Rodney Holmes, Jojo Mayer, and Max Wienberg.

Music Influences King David, David Porter, Cathy Porter, Catherine Porter, Andrew Porter, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Metallica, Nirvana, Petra, Relient K, P.O.D., Quincy Jones, Toby McKeehan, The Yellow Jackets, Eric Clapton, Goo Goo Dolls, Cross Movement, Skillet, Switchfoot, Lauryn Hill, and The Funk Brothers. As seen here Benjamin plays a very versatile style of music, ranging from Jazz, Gospel, Soul, R&B, Funk, Hip Hop, Rock, Grunge, Metal, Salsa, Flamenco, and Big Band. He uses a traditional style of grip and sticking as well as the match stick grip style.